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Thank you for that but I won't pretend to fully understand whay you are saying. I'm not even sure if this is the best place to discuss this so please ask me to move it elsewhere if necessary.

Both my PC & Laptop are on my home network as are both our iPhones and Ipad as well as my printer/scanner. Are you saying that I don't have them set up correctly and Norton has picked this up or is it something else?

As far as I can tell from the information you've provided this isn't anything you should be worried about. Norton has detected traffic between devices on your network, or between one of your machines and the internet.

I've used Norton products over the last few years (and in the earlier days, when the product was bloatware, and not very good). The mechanics behind this program are as good as the last version; it works well, it works smoothly. Personally, I don't mind all the extras that are thrown in, but I can see the other viewpoint. The product is getting bigger, more complex to understand, more difficult to be sure it is working.... It is, but with all the extras to worry about, users may feel daunted. Condom above is an example. He's a pretty wily user, he's a professional, bright guy, he's set up a working home network, which is more than most, yet the product has worried him - unduly, it seems. It's just one computer on his network pinging the other.

I think it was the PC Cillin products in the 90's (or Kaspersky?) that had, as a home screen, a big " your computer is fully protected" logo, and a smaller "advanced options", which was a gateway to all the bells & whistles. If you didn't know what another computer pinging yours meant, you didn't even know it was happening. That was a better presentation; Norton seems keen to validate the spend you made by showing you got this... and this... and all these as well for your money. I buy my internet security for the security... a big green button that says " you are protected", and means it is worth paying for. All the extras... well, I don't mind that they are there, but I wouldn't mind if they weren't.

So, despite the speedy install, is Norton in danger of heading back to being bloatware? Shouldn't the emphasis be on being the best protection, bar none, rather than added features?

Oh, and the graphics.... I know I moaned about all that vivid colour scheme in previous beta tests but, wow. That is one ugly, ugly program interface.

I am sad to say that I had to uninstall NIS2013. I simply could not get it to work with Outlook 2003 and I needed Outlook more than I needed NIS beta. I went back to Norton 360 v6 and everything is back to normal. My apologies that I could not get it to work to test it fully.

put pc on this morning, had norton shortcut on desktop which i had deleted after install last week then saw the red x on the icon clicked on this said error was browser not protected, hit fix, but could it could not fix.
tried several times and reboot norton cannot fix the error.

anyone else hed this, i presume with the desktop icon appearing there has been a beta update.

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